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New Gallery Concert Series: 2, 4, 6, 8 = Twenty: A Night of the Elements | Sarah Bob, artistic director
Thursday • November 7, 2019 | 7:30 pm
New Gallery Concert Series (NGCS) begins its 20th anniversary season featuring artwork by the metalsmith Rhea Vedro, a commissioned world premiere of David Rakowsk’s Eighters Gonna Eight for two pianos and eight hands, and an incredible line up of pianists, including Marilyn Nonken, Geoffrey Burleson, Donald Berman, and Sarah Bob. NGCS provides collaborative platforms to living composers and visual artists that are eclectic, thoughtprovoking, and great fun.
“The next generation of new music may have found a niche.” —Boston Globe
Saddlebird • Rhea Vedro• 2013 • steel, metal leaf, enamel paint, wood • 33″ x 61″ x 70″
PROGRAM
Crackling Fire for piano four hands (1990) by David Rakowski (1958)
Marilyn Nonken & Geoffrey Burleson
Earth Into Air for piano four hands (2019) by Stefanie Lubkowski (1974)
New Gallery Concert Series Commission WORLD PREMIERE
Sarah Bob & Donald Berman
Cadenza from Ananke by John Aylward
Sarah Bob
Simplicity, goodness, & truth. for piano four hands (2019) by deVon Russell Gray (1980)
New Gallery Concert Series Commission WORLD PREMIERE
Geoffrey Burleson & Sarah Bob
Fantasy on a Theme by Steve Reich for piano six hands (1999) by Steve Reich (1936) & Dionysis Boukouvalas (1979)
Sarah Bob, Geoffrey Burleson, Donald Berman
intermission
Solid Goldie, Etude #90 for piano solo (2009)
Sizzle, Prelude #21, Book III for piano solo (2013) by David Rakowski
Marilyn Nonken
Eighters Gonna Eight (2018) for two pianos & eight hands by David Rakowski
New Gallery Concert Series Commission WORLD PREMIERE
Tutti: Sarah Bob, Donald Berman, Marilyn Nonken, Geoffrey Burleson
Tickets are $20 at the door.
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